Is making a sandwich really cooking? Disillusioned Adventurers's second episode was just twenty minutes of dungeon tutorial exposition with horrifically bad animation. Less gross than the first episode, sure, but in no way an improvement. Impressions: It's a little weird that this is the show with the second most status screens of the season, unless […]
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